Lucy Worsley explores our dark obsession with notorious crimes

A Very British Murder

Published:10:50Monday 02 February 2015

An illustrated tour through the dark story of our fascination with murder is offered as historian Lucy Worsley takes to the stage with A Very British Murder at Worthing’s Connaught Theatre on Wednesday, February 4.

A historian and chief curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces, Lucy has covered the history of this very British obsession in a recent book and BBC TV series.

She will examine some notorious crimes and criminals, but she will also explain how murder became a form of middle-class entertainment through novels, plays, paintings, and the press.

Starting with a horrific early nineteenth-century serial-killer in the East End of London, she’ll end with the drawing-room dramas of Agatha Christie.